Philosophical integration of the human person: African standpoint

• Authors: Jeko, Victor Ogheneochuko

Abstracts

EN

The human person has a definitional difficulty. One definition of the human person will be one sided. The human person reflects the philosophical analysis of manifold reciprocal relations and fundamental wholeness. The human person is a unique rational being who is very complex from the domain unified understanding of his nature. It constitutes a rational element and characterized by the social, physical, metaphysical, psychological, existential, global, dialogical, moral, and African plane. The human person is deeply rooted in the fundamental existential question of who he is, what he does governed by its rational ability, cognitive capacity and inter-subjective relation. The human person is both a spiritual and a material being, that is, he is characterized by soul and body. The human person is characterized by the stylization of rational conduct and common good or collective interests. We shall critically examine the psychological, ontological, global, dialogical dimension of the human person, this philosophical elucidation of these dimensions is not exhaustive, the human person can also be viewed from socio-political, moral religious and existential dimension.

Keywords

EN

human person; humanism; communication community; african development and african potentials

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 28/2
• Pages: 287-305

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Jeko, Victor Ogheneochuko

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5888

DOI

10.15290/idea.2016.28.2.16